Table I.
Patients' basic information table
| Sex/Age, years | Cause | Time of fMRI (months after insult) | Lesions on MRI | GCS | At the time of fMRI | 3 months later | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRS‐R | Diagnosis | CRS‐R | Diagnosis | ||||||
| VS patients | |||||||||
| 1 | M/58 | Anoxic | 4 | Right temporal gyrus (diffuse cortical atrophy) | 9 | 7 | VS | 7 | VS |
| 2 | M/61 | Traumatic | 8 | Left temporal frontal cortex | 7 | 4 | VS | 4 | VS |
| 3 | M/29 | Anoxic | 48 | Diffuse cortical atrophy | 8 | 6 | VS | 4 | VS |
| 4 | M/42 | Traumatic | 2 | Diffuse left hemisphere/right temporal and parietal cortex | 7 | 4 | VS | 4 | VS |
| 5 | F/52 | Traumatic | 2 | Right frontal and left temporal cortex | 9 | 6 | VS | 6 | VS |
| 6 | M/21 | Traumatic | 4 | Right temporal, frontal and parietal cortex | 9 | 6 | VS | 11 | MCS |
| 7 | M/38 | Traumatic | 4 | Left occipital cortex and bilateral basal ganglia | 7 | 6 | VS | 9 | MCS |
| MCS patients | |||||||||
| 1 | M/30 | Traumatic | 2 | Right temporal and frontal cortex | 10 | 10 | MCS | 21 | MCS |
| 2 | F/24 | Traumatic | 3 | Bilateral frontal subdural hematoma, brain stem | 9 | 7 | MCS | 20 | MCS |
| 3 | M/38 | Traumatic | 6 | Bilateral temporal and frontal cortex | 8 | 5 | MCS | 6 | MCS |
| 4 | M/30 | Traumatic | 26 | Left temporal and bilateral frontal cortex | 10 | 13 | MCS | 14 | MCS |
GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; CRS‐R, Coma Recovery Scale‐Revised.